Foxconn Releases Test BIOS Fixing Linux Crashes

Posted by kdawson on Saturday August 2, 2008 @05:52AM from the happy-ending-group-hug dept.

Ryan1984 writes "Only a week after the bad press coverage regarding the Linux-related bugs in a number of motherboards released by Foxconn (which turned out to be the AMI BIOS that several board makers use), Foxconn is the first vendor out with a publicly released test patch that fixes the bulk of the problems, allowing kernel 2.6.26 to run well on the afflicted boards. The remaining issues appear to either be kernel bugs in builds earlier than 2.6.26, issues with the Intel chipset itself, or minor annoyances that Foxconn is still working to resolve. Foxconn representative Heart Zhang has posted on the Ubuntu forums (where the situation began), apologizing for the issues, thanking Foxconn customers and the community at-large for their feedback, and promising that Foxconn will take Linux support and testing seriously, going forward."

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Deliberate sabotage appologized for by mrmeval · 2008-08-02 07:11 · Score: 0, Flamebait

move along, nothing to see here, here kiddies *candy* now go away.
Not forgiven.

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